This is definitely a step in the right direction! Assuming an 8 game in-conference schedule in 2015 & 2018, we finally have a decent schedule for those years. Now to do something about the schedule in the rest of the years...

@jerseyguy - it blow me away when some people say that this was not recruiting oriented! Refer to cowhog's earlier post which really answers the preposterous notion that this was not recruiting oriented:

"Paterno lied (withholding the truth is lying) to protect his football program, which, in turn led to:

No damage to recruiting - which helped him get those wins.

Money from the Big 10 TV contract, the amount of which was negotiated based in part on the reputations of the Big 10 schools - which helped him get those wins.

Worst of all - Paterno was willing to stand back and let kids get raped in his facility rather than lose his legacy and win record."

@jmcgary2 - the $60M file is a drop in the bucket compared to PSU's $1.5B endowment. And even if PSU passes this $60M fine along to their 96,519 students, it averages out to about $620 per student in total.

I agree that those who are responsible should pay, and that includes the individuals who perpetrated these heinous crimes as well as those who knowingly / willfully concealed them, and the institution of PSU which did likewise.

I am in full agreement with the penalties imposed, and I feel that they needed to be imposed NOW and not drag on, allowing the criminal concealment to go unpunished any longer. With the facts available from the PSU initiated and funded Freeh report, there is no point in delaying any further.

And to the poster who said that we are wasting more money on the investigation, the opposite is actually happening as it is the PSU funded Freeh report that is being used as the basis for this decision.

I read that PSU is accepting the penalties, so I seriously doubt that there will be any legal /courtroom challenges to these penalties.

The place where I feel that PSU got off light is the initial loss of only 10 scholarships, and the ramping up to 20. I personally feel that it should be more like 25 scholarships lost right away and continuing for 4 years, or a total of 100 scholarships which is about the total number of players that college football teams have.

Today's students can transfer and can play right away at another school as long as they are academically eligible. Those who choose to stay at PSU are choosing to align themselves with a program and an institution that supported the concealment of child rape.

The loss of future scholarships and bowl games are all things that will factor into current PSU players and current HS players decisions as to where they choose to go to college.

An 11-0 record in ’76 is nothing to sneeze at, given where the program was at the time. You still need to look at who we played back then, though: Navy, Bucknell, Princeton, Cornell, UConn (way before they went Div 1-A), Lehigh, Columbia, Massachusetts, Louisville, Tulane & Colgate.

Personally, I’ll take the 2006 season with a #12 final finish and a rout of K State in the Texas Bowl.

But as far as wins go, huge kudos to Frank Burns for that upset road win over #17 Tennessee in ’79, and many thanks for his having winning seasons in 8 of 11 season On The Banks, and especially for doing it the right way and molding boys into fine young men!

Given the summary of the Freeh Group report that I read, the entire coverup by Paterno, Curley and so many of the State Penn administrators was done for the benefit of the football program, including recruiting.

For these abhorrent rapes of young boys and the deliberate coverup, I firmly believe that State Penn football deserves the NCAA "death penalty".

@cowhog - I think it was you who posted about Turay's legit, but bone crushing hits on video, and I was going to watch it after I got home from work the other day. But now I can't find your post. Could you repost that? I'd like to check out the video - thanks!